William Kent Krueger Quotes
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.
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Do stuff that scares you on a regular basis. I think it's good for the body and for the mind.
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Dolce cosa era la patria.
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The camera must point at the exact spot the audience wishes to look at any given moment. To find that spot is absurdly easy: you only have to remember where you were looking at the time the scene was made.
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When I think of my work, I'm aware that I'm American and African at all points and times. And without a doubt, my experience and understanding of America was shaped by having immigrant parents.
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I do like my sugar at night, but I try to keep it to a minimum.
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Is it possible this triviality is a code of some sort? the Brain wondered. But how could it be ... unless there's more to these emotional inconsequentials and this talk of a God than appears on the surface? The Brain had begun its career in logics as a pragmatic atheist. Now doubts began to creep into its computations, and it classified doubt as an emotion.
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I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
